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FINAL REPORTS 



OF THE 



Building Committee 



AND OF 



Cl^e Zvtamvn 



OF THE 



Harvard Memorial Fund 



TO THE 



COMMITTEE OF FIFTY, 

26 June, 1878. 



CAMBRIDGE: 

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. 

1878. 



FINAL REPORTS 



OF THE 



Building Committee 



AND OF 



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OF THE 



Harvard Memorial Fund 



TO THE 



COMMITTEE OF FIFTY, 

26 June, 1878. 




CAMBRTSgE: 

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. 
1878. 



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REPORT OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE, 



PREPARED BY ITS CHAIRMAN. 



'T^HE MEMORIAL HALL in Cambridge, as is generally 
known, was substantially completed in the latter part 
of June, 1875, at which time the usual ceremonies of Com- 
mencement Day were held in its Sanders Theatre, the last 
portion of the structure that had remained unfinished ; and 
it is quite possible that the general public, and even its spe- 
cial friends, were satisfied to know the fact from inspection, 
and do not care to learn the details of its history from the 
Committee under whose auspices the building was erected. 
And yet there has been something so precious and even 
sacred in this undertaking ; the structure is so commanding 
by its size and so peculiar in many of its features, its several 
parts have proved to be so well adapted to the uses for which 
they were designed, and, more than this, its walls and halls 
are so impregnated already with memories and associations 
that are, and must continue to be, dear to all who venerate 
patriotism, learning, or public service, that some sketch of its 
rise and progress, if not for present use, at least for future 
reference, would seem to be proper and even necessary. 

The first suggestion of "some memorial of the Sons of 
Harvard who had fallen in the War" was made, it is believed, 
by the late Ex-President James Walker in the course of a 
public address, delivered by him as early as 1863 before a 
large audience gathered at Cambridge ; and, like every thing 



else that proceeded from that venerated man, it made a deep 
impression upon the minds of all who heard it. Owing to 
the troubled state of the times, however, no action in relation 
to it was taken before the I2th of ]\Iay, 1865. when, in pursu- 
ance of a public invitation, a meeting of the graduates of the 
Collec^e was held in Chickerinsf's Rooms on Tremont Street in 
Boston to consider the subject. It was fully attended ; and 
the Hon. Charles G. Lorixg, who had called it, was made 
its chairman, and addressed it with earnestness and power. 
His remarks on the propriety and even necessity of erecting 
some permanent testimonial to the Sons of Harvard who had 
fallen in the War were received without a dissenting voice. 
But a suggestion of his at the close, that there were other 
objects than this special one which deserved consideration, — 
that the College had long been in great need of a dining-hall 
for the Alumni, and a theatre for exhibitions and Commence- 
ment exercises, and that he hoped it would be possible to 
erect some building which should furnish a fitting memorial, 
and at the same time provide for these wants, — gave rise to 
a general expression of feeling and opinion ; and it became 
quite evident that, whilst some faA'ored his views, there were 
others who thought that the combination of any object, how- 
ever important in itself, with that of the proposed memorial, 
would be altogether inappropriate and inexpedient. The dis- 
cussion closed by the appointment of a committee of nine 
persons, with Mr. Lorixg as chairman, to consider and report 
upon the whole subject. 

This Committee had several meetings, and on July 14 made 
an elaborate report, which was subsequently printed. In it 
they state " that, although a considerable diversity of opinion 
originall)^ existed, and may to some extent continue to exist, 
among their members, a large majority, after long discussion, 
are of opinion that a memorial hall is the most desirable form, 
not only as best embracing all the purposes of any mere 
monument, but as securing at the same time the combination 



with them of numerous sacred and interesting past and future 
associations, of which no other form can possibly admit." 
And they go on to discuss in full and seriatim the various 
propositions suggested by the minority, with their merits and 
defects, and close with the following Resolution : " That in 
the opinion of the graduates of Harvard College a memorial 
hall, constructed in such a manner as to indicate in its exter- 
nal arrangements the purpose for which it is chiefly designed, 
in which statues, busts, portraits, medallions, and mural tab- 
lets, or other appropriate memorials, may be placed, com- 
memorative of the graduates and students of the College who 
have fallen, and of those who have served, in the army and 
navy during the recent Rebellion, in conjunction with those of 
the past benefactors and distinguished sons of Harvard now 
in her keeping, and with those of her sons who shall here- 
after prove themselves to be worthy of the like honor, will be 
the most appropriate, enduring, and acceptable commemora- 
tion of their heroism and self-sacrifice ; and that the con- 
struction of such a hall, in a manner to render it a suitable 
theatre, or auditorium, for the literary festivals of the College, 
and of its filial institutions, will add greatly to the beauty, dig- 
nity, and effect of such memorials, and tend to preserve them 
unimpaired, and with constantly increasing associations of 
interest to future ages." The Report and Resolution having 
been accepted and adopted by the meeting were, by its order, 
presented to the Association of the Alumni on Commence- 
ment Day, July 19; and, after brief discussion, were, by this 
body, referred to a Committee of Fifty with full powers, and 
with power to fill vacancies, the Hon. Charles G. Loring 
being made their chairman. 

The Committee of Fifty held several meetings, at which the 
question of " a monument or a memorial hall " was fully 
and ably discussed ; but, without final decision, they sub- 
mitted it to a sub-committee of six, who on September 23 
reported in favor of the latter, and at the same time pre- 



sented the plan of a building by Messrs. Ware & Vax 
Brunt, estimated to cost $73,000.; and. on motion of Dr. 
Walker, their report was adopted. 

At a subsequent meeting on September 30. the Committee 
of Fifty voted " that the proposed hall be built to embrace all 
the purposes needed, and that a monument to those students 
and graduates who have fallen in the war be erected in some 
appropriate part of the same, and that the sub-committee 
be authorized to employ as architects Alessrs. WaPvZ & Van 
Bruxt." 

On December 12, in accordance with the recommendation 
of the sub-committee, the design offered by these gentlemen 
was accepted unanimously ; and a vote was passed " that meas- 
ures be taken to raise the sum required." 

At this meeting, also, the following committees were ap- 
pointed : a Committee 01 Finance, consisting of twelve per- 
sons ; a Buildir.g- C::"n::::ee of nve: and a Committee of four, 
to draw up an appeal to the Alumni and the friends of the 
College. 

This appeal was accordingly made, and, with the signatures 
of aU the members of the Committee of Fifty attached to it, 
was printed, and extensively circulated under the date of 
Februar}- 12, 1866 ; and on Commencement Day. July 26, it 
was laid before the Alumni, accompanied b}* an elevation 
and ground plan, and a description of the design by the 
architects. 

In the mean time, the Committee of Fift}' had made appli- 
cation to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for a 
site for the proposed building on the college grounds ; and, 
having received from that Corporation the following vote, 
passed January 20, 1866, "that they approve the plan sub- 
mitted, and. when sufficient m.eans are pro^^ded, will author- 
ize the erection of the building on s:n.e suitable site in or near 
the college grounds, and viiM appropriate f;r its construction 
the .funds received from the late Charles Sanders, provided, 
and so lar as. the purposes to which the building is devoted 



are consistent with the conditions of Mr. Sanders's will," they, 
on July 14, 1866, appointed a joint committee, consisting of 
the Building and Central Finance Committees, to select and 
procure a site. And at the same meeting they passed the 
following important vote : " That the Building Committee 
have full power, after a site shall have been procured, to pro- 
ceed to the erection of a building in general accordance with 
the plan adopted by the whole Committee on December 12, 
1865, with such modifications as may, in their judgment, be ren- 
dered necessary by the site selected and other considerations." 
This vote, by its terms, it will be seen, gave to this Committee 
full power to modify the design according to its discretion ; 
and that such was its intent more fully appears from the 
report of the chairman of the Committee of Fifty to the 
Alumni, in which it is said "that a literal conformity to 
this plan is not required, but, on the contrary, that all mod- 
ifications required by convenience, architectural principles, 
and good taste, are clearly within the discretion of the Com- 
mittee, as always necessarily implied in any general plan 
for the accomplishment of the purposes for which it was 
designed," and that "changes in its peculiar features, in its 
elevations, ornamental designs, and proportions, are all within 
the scope of the powers of the Building Committee, who are 
under a responsibility in the matter to the present age and 
to posterity, which may safely be relied upon as securing a 
faithful, successful, and honorable discharge of their high 
trust." 

The Finance Committee organized themselves permanently 
on January 27, 1866, by the appointment of Amos A. Law- 
rence as Chairman, and Henry Lee, Jr., as Treasurer ; and, 
at their second meeting, having received from Theodore 
Lyman, of the Class of 1855, ^^^ offer to be one of twenty, each 
to subscribe five thousand dollars, they set to work with zeal 
and vigor to canvass the public ; and in July their treasurer 
was able to report subscriptions to the amount of $177,770, 



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classified as follows: from Alumni, $122,420; from the 
families of Alumni, $2,500; from friends of the College who 
are not Alumni $52,850. Certainly a noble and most gen- 
erous response to the call which had been made, and a striking 
proof of the sympathy and feeling of the public in regard to 
this undertaking. 

It is due to this Committee to say that, to their good 
judgment, perseverance, and untiring activity, the College is 
mainly indebted for this noble structure ; for, evidently, with- 
out the funds procured by them, the Committee of Fifty and 
this Building Committee, with all their plans and endeavors, 
would have been entirely useless. And, among its members, 
it is just to add that no one was more conspicuous for zeal 
and success than the late lamented Stephen M. Weld, of the 
Class of 1826. 

By the terms of the subscription, all sums of one thousand 
dollars, or more, were allowed to be paid in five annual instal- 
ments ; the first instalment being payable on January i, 1,867, 
and the last on January i, 1872, with interest on the same, 
if not promptly paid. And this provision, though deemed by 
the Committee essential to the success of the project, neces- 
sarily led, as will be seen, to great embarrassment and delay 
in the progress of the work. 

In the mean time, the Joint Committee on the site had met 
with an unexpected difficulty. After a very careful survey of 
the college grounds, they had come to the unanimous conclu- 
sion that the Delta, so called, offered the only suitable place 
for the proposed building, and had asked the consent of the 
Corporation to its appropriation to this purpose ; but this body, 
after much deliberation, decided that they could not grant it, 
except upon the condition " that the Committee should procure 
for the College a suitable playground in some other con- 
venient locahty." This decision was as serious in its results 
as it was unanticipated. It involved much additional labor 
and a large unforeseen expenditure. It must delay, it might 



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put an end to, the undertaking. The Committee tried to 
have it reconsidered, on the ground that the Corporation had 
previously voted to provide "a suitable site" for the building 
on their grounds, and that, in the opinion of the Committee, 
the Delta was the only one to which that term could properly 
apply, but without effect. They then resurveyed the grounds ; 
but, coming to the same result as before, they set seriously to 
work to see if they could comply with the condition which 
had been imposed upon them. After much trouble and vexa- 
tion, they succeeded, near the close of the year 1867, in pur- 
chasing a suitable lot of land, called the Jarvis Field, and 
lying on both sides of Oxford Street, for the sum of ^33,974.95. 
It contained 277,096 square feet ; and of this amount they set 
off 226,629 feet, lying west of this street, for the college play- 
ground; and the remaining 50,467 feet, lying east of it, they 
reserved for future sale for the benefit of the Building Com- 
mittee, the deed being put in the name of J. I. Bowditch, 
Amos A. Lawrence, and Henry Lee, Jr., as Trustees, until 
final arrangements could be perfected. 

An attempt to raise the amount of the purchase by sub- 
scription having produced only two thousand dollars, the whole 
cost of the land, with this exception, was paid from the funds 
received from the subscriptions for the erection of the build- 
ing, in the hands of the treasurer. The draft made on the 
treasury by this transaction convinced the Building Committee 
that there would not be sufficient funds on hand, within a 
year or two, to justify the commencement of the work ; and, 
in consequence, Mr. Ware, one of the architects, with their 
consent, went to Europe, in the hope that his inquiries and 
observations would prove of use to them. The Finance Com- 
mittee, however, neither discouraged nor wearied, continued 
their laborious efforts without interruption, and, as their 
records show, with large success. 

The Building Committee held its first meeting on May 17, 
1866, but, in consequence of the above purchase of land, were 



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not called together again until the autumn of 1868, during 
which and the following winter they, with Mr. Charles W. 
Eliot as a new member, Mr. Turner Sargent having re- 
signed, held many and protracted meetings, at which the 
revised plans and estimates of the architects, and the whole 
subject-matter in its details and relations, together with the 
best mode of procedure, were carefully considered. Having at 
last arrived at some definite conclusions, they, on the 15th of 
May, 1869, made, through their chairman, a Report, accom- 
panied by plans, estimates, and specifications, which were laid 
before the Finance, and subsequently the General, Committee 
for consideration and approval. 

In this Report, they state " that they had seriously set them- 
selves to work to perfect and carry out in detail the plan 
approved by the Alumni, but that it soon became apparent 
that, in some essential respects, it would not answer the uses 
for which it had been designed. In their opinion, both the 
dining-hall and the theatre were too small, and the approaches 
to the latter contracted and inconvenient. The principal 
doorway of the edifice was wanting in strength and effect, 
the tower was too narrow on the front and too wide on the 
sides, and the monumental character attempted to be given 
to the exterior western hall was justly liable to the criticism 
it had received. They had therefore, after long deliberation, 
come to the conclusion that it was necessary to enlarge the 
original plan, and to transfer, as far as possible, the memorial 
character of the north-westerly end of the building to the 
Central Tower, and at the same time to form within it a 
Central Vestibule leading to all parts of the edifice, which, 
by its size, position, and architectural structure and orna- 
mentation should make a suitable Memorial Hall, and give 
to this cherished feature the prominence and significance it 
ought to possess throughout the building." 

To the consideration and perfection of this extended design, 
the Committee say that they and the architects have given no 



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inconsiderable time and thought, and now present it, with the 
accompanying detailed drawings, specifications, and estimates, 
as the best and final result of their joint labor; their only 
regret being that, owing to the greater size of the building 
and the greatly increased prices for labor and material, the 
cost of carrying it out will very largely exceed the estimate 
made in 1865, and their own previous expectations. They 
then go on to state that they have carefully examined the 
figures given to them by the architects, which are based on 
proposals received from contractors deemed by them to be 
competent and reliable, and are compelled to estimate the 
cost of erecting the structure, as now matured, at a sum, 
in round numbers, not less than ^400,000, whilst they find 
that the funds on hand and in prospect on April i, 1869, 
as appears from the account of the treasurer, are only 
^278,384. 

"In considering the question how, with these resources, a 
building whose final cost will probably be so large can be 
erected," the Committee declare, " they undoubtedly have had 
a difficult problem to solve, but that, after long and mature 
consideration, they have come unanimously to the conclusion 
that in this case the question is really one of time only, the 
accumulation of the invested funds alone on hand at this 
date, if kept properly invested, being sufficient to build and 
complete the building, as now matured, with certainty, within 
ten or twelve years, and they are quite confident that the 
honor and benefit which will accrue from the possession of 
such a dining-room, theatre, and memorial hall as these plans 
contemplate, will prove to be ample justification and compen- 
sation for any necessary delay, even if it should extend to the 
period named." 

They then go on to prove the soundness of the conclusions 
at which they had arrived by presenting a detailed calcula- 
tion in figures, showing that the invested funds on hand on 
April I, 1869, exclusive of the Sanders Fund, subject to an 



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annuity, and the land for sale on Oxford Street, would, if 
compounded at seven per centum interest, produce the sum 
of $404,569.93, on the ist of April, 1880; and, therefore, 
"that the real question before them is not whether the funds 
within their control will ultimately meet the cost of the 
building, but how and when they should begin the work." 
And on this point they present two propositions, each of 
which is accompanied by statements and calculations in 
detail : — 

1. To begin in 1870 the Dining and Memorial Hall, and 
finish them in 1873, provided that 325,000 can be obtained 
during the year 1869, by subscription or otherwise, in re- 
payment of the money advanced for the playground ; and 
to leave the theatre and the crowning tower to be finished 
from the Sanders Funds and the proceeds of the land east 
of Oxford Street, with their accumulations, on or before 
1883. 

2. To wait until 1874, when the fund, with its accumula- 
tions, Avill be sufficient to meet the entire expenditure, and 
then to begin the work, and complete it in 1877. The above 
Report, having been fully discussed by the Committee on 
Finance, was, on ]\Iay 22, 1869, accepted, and the following 
vote passed: "That it is expedient to build the memorial 
and dining halls as soon as is warranted by the funds at 
command for that purpose ; and to leave the erection of 
the theatre and the completion of the crowning tower of the 
building until the required amount is made up by the accu- 
mulation of the Sanders bequests and the proceeds of the land 
east of Oxford Street." At the same meeting, the treasurer 
was authorized to pay out money for building the memorial 
and dining halls upon the joint order of the chairman of the 
Finance and of the Building Committees ; and a committee 
was raised to confer with the Corporation of the College in 
relation to a contribution from their funds towards the cost of 
the new playground. 



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The Report was also subsequently submitted to the Com- 
mittee of Fifty, who on June 7 passed the following votes : 
'* That they approve the action of the Committee of Finance 
looking to an early beginning of the dining and memorial 
halls, according to the architectural plans and estimates 
submitted by the Building Committee, and that they have 
power to fill any vacancies which may occur in their number." 
They also requested their chairman, now the Hon. John G. 
Palfrey, to prepare a report of their doings thus far, to be 
submitted to the Association of the Alumni at their annual 
meeting on the succeeding Commencement Day, which duty 
he performed with his usual ability ; and the whole design 
and plan of procedure, as now changed and agreed upon, were 
duly approved and accepted by that body. 

In answer to the application of the Committee on the new 
playground, the Corporation of the College, after due con- 
sideration of the facts of the case, agreed, on June 5, 1869, 
to contribute towards its cost the sum of $15,000, which 
was subsequently received by the treasurer of the Finance 
Committee. 

The whole design and mode of procedure having thus been 
definitely settled by all the parties in interest, the Building 
Committee, during the remainder of the year, were seriously 
engaged in revising and perfecting in detail their plans and 
estimates, and in receiving and considering proposals from 
contractors. And on January 20, 1870, having found the 
funds within their control to be over $200,000, they voted 
*' to begin the dining and memorial halls in the coming- 
spring, in accordance with the scheme heretofore adopted 
by them and indorsed by the Committee of Fifty." 

Contracts were at once entered into, and preparations for 
work commenced ; and, on the 6th of October following, the 
cellar of these halls having been excavated, their foundations 
securely and properly laid with stone, the underpinning set, 



and a rough flooring placed over the whole, the corner- 
stone, in which was inserted a square copper box containing 
various documents and papers, was duly laid with appropriate 
ceremonies and exercises, and in accordance with the follow- 
ing programme : — 

1. Luther's Psalm. F. H. Hedge. 

2. Prayer by Rev. Phillips Brooks. 

3. Report of the Building Committee and of the Committee of Fifty; 

Response by the President of the Alumni, Hon. William Gray; 
Laying of the Stone. 

4. Hymn by Oliver W. Holmes. 

5. Address by the Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar. 

6. Chorus from the Oratorio of St. Peter. J. K. Paine. 

7. Benediction by the Rev. Dr. Hill. 

The assemblage was large, and the whole occasion rendered 
especially imposing by the presence, in addition .to the offi- 
cers, students, and graduates of the College, of the Governor 

and his staff, the United States Senators Sumner and Wil- 
son, ]\Iajor-Generals ]\Ieade and Burnside and their staffs, 
and many other distinguished men. The copper box referred 
to above contained two copies of " ]vIemorials of the Sons of 
Harvard who fell in the War," a Triennial Catalogue of 1869, 
and an Annual Catalogue of 1870. 

The foundations of the building being properly secured 
from the effects of the coming winter, no further work was 
done until the spring of 1871, when contracts to the amount 
of 383,266 were concluded, and the erection of the exterior 
walls of the Dining Hall was begun and completed, and that 
portion of the building roofed in and slated late in the autumn 
of that year. 

On March 2, 1872, the architects presented detailed plans 
and specifications of work for the completion of the external 
walls, not only of the central portion of the building and its 



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four small towers, but also of the great tower, which, as well 
as the theatre, in the original plan of procedure, it was not 
proposed to erect until the Sanders Funds, with their accumula- 
tions, had become sufficient to meet the expenditure; and the 
Building Committee approved them, and authorized their chair- 
man to execute contracts therefor to the amount of ^87,145.45. 
The work was accordingly commenced, and finished in the 
course of the year. 

On March i, 1873, this Committee, being assured that the 
fund known as the Gift of the Class of 1807, and now amount- 
ing to ^7,817.01, was at their disposal, that the treasurer 
would, on February 28, 1874, have ^50,000 in his hands, and 
that the lands remaining for sale on the east side of Oxford 
Street might be made to yield at least $12,000 during the 
year, felt warranted in undertaking to finish the interior of 
the two parts of the building already erected, and voted " that 
their chairman execute contracts for the same to the amount 
of $66,965." During the succeeding months, the work con- 
templated by this vote went steadily on, and was finished in 
June, 1874. Of the lands for sale on Oxford Street, 19,270 
square feet were sold to the Trustees of the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology for the sum of $6,937.20, and the remainder, 
31,197 feet, to Amos A. Lawrence for $12,367,17. 

The inauguration of the portion of the edifice then com- 
pleted took place on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 23, 1874, 
in the Dining Hall, and was attended by a company of gradu- 
ates, students, and friends of the College, that filled it to over- 
flowing. Indeed, so great was the gathering that a large 
portion of the procession itself, which had assembled in the 
College Yard, and marched thence to the building, could gain 
no admittance to it. The sight of this great Hall, with its 
walls lined with the portraits and busts of graduates and 
friends, who in times past had deserved to be held in remem- 
brance by the College, and its floor covered by living repre- 
sentatives of every profession, age, and sex, who had come 



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here to do her honor, was deeply impressive, and the exercises 
which followed were appropriate and interesting. They were 
as follows : — 

Hallelujah Chorus, from Beethoven's " Mount of Olives." 

Prayer by the Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D.D. 

Chorus from the Oratorio of St. Paul. Mendelssohn. 

Report of the Building Committee and of the Committee of Fifty, by 

their Chairman, 
Chorus from the Creation, " The heavens are telling." Haydn. 
Address by the Hon. Charles Francis Adams. 
Hymn written for the occasion by Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
Benediction by Dr. Bellows (the Rev. James Walker, D.D., who 

had been selected for this duty, being unable from sickness to 

appear). 

Mr. Henrv Lee was Chief Marshal as well on this occasion 
as on that of laying the corner-stone. The Handel and Hay^dn 
Society kindly volunteered their services. 

With the assent of the Building Committee, the College 
has since been in full possession of the Dining Hall and the 
Memorial Transept. 

During the same month, the Committee of Fifty, finding 
that the original subscription, including interest, had, by rea- 
son of refusal or inability to make payment, fallen short of its 
nominal amount by the sum of $27,500, passed a vote " that 
they proceed, whenever they deem it to be expedient, to raise 
this amount ; that the Central and Finance Committees be a 
joint committee on this supplementary subscription, with full 
power to add to their number ; and that the Building Com- 
mittee, with the advice of counsel, be empowered to give to 
the Corporation of the College such use and occupation of 
the Hall now completed as may be desirable." 

The Building Committee also voted to accept with grati- 
tude all proposals of classes for providing memorial windows, 
the design to be agreeable to the Committee, and the conduct 
and execution of the work to be in the charge of the archi- 



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tects of the Hall ; and that the Committee approve the plan 
for filling the Dining Hall windows submitted to them : viz., 
" that each window shall contain one or more upright figures 
about the size of life, with an ornamental panel or inscription 
occupying the ventilator below, all within a border or canopy; 
and that these figures shall be typical or historical." 

It -was also declared to be the sense of the Committee that 
the Corporation of the College might proceed to occupy the 
completed portion of the building, and fit up the Dining 
Hall and cellar at their expense, on condition that they 
should assume all responsibility and risk in relation to 
insurance. 

On July II, 1874, it was voted "that the eastern wall of 
the cloister should be reserved for tablets for the names of 
those who served in and survived the War." 

In the month of March, 1875, the joint Committees of 
Finance and Building, having received subscriptions from 
thirty-nine individuals to the amount of ^15,550, for the pur- 
pose of completing the Theatre and aiding the Students' Din- 
ing Association ; and the President and Fellows of the College 
having voted, on April 26, 1875, "that its Treasurer be au- 
thorized to pay to the order of the chairman of the Building 
Committee of Memorial Hall the sum of ^58,943.25, being the 
amount, on September i, 1874, of Charles Sanders's gift and 
bequest for the purpose of erecting a hall or theatre for the 
use of the College on days of public ceremonial or festivity; 
and that interest be allowed at the rate of six per cent a year, 
from September i, 1874, on the above amount, or on such bal- 
ance thereof as may, from time to time, remain in the Treas- 
urer's hands," — the Building Committee, on March 26, 1875, 
voted " that they would proceed to erect the Theatre," and 
authorized their chairman to sign contracts in accordance 
with the carefully detailed estimates presented to them by 
the architects. 

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The work was at once commenced, and has progressed 
steadily and successfully, the foundation being laid, the walls 
erected, and the building covered in and slated in October, 
and the interior begun in November, 1875, and substantially 
finished in the succeeding June. 

The whole edifice, as now completed, is 305 feet long from 
outside to outside and of differing widths ; the Dining Hall 
being 64 feet 6 inches wide, the Transept 113 feet, and the 
Theatre 104. 

The great tower is 190 feet in extreme height, and 34 by 
38 feet 6 inches in width. The walls of the dining-room are 
42 feet in height, and those of the great tower 138 feet 
6 inches. 

Inside, the Memorial Transept is 103 feet by 29 feet 6 inches, 
the dining-hall 149 feet by 58 feet 6 inches on the floor, and 
above the level of the galleries 58 feet 6 inches by 176 feet, 
seating 1,100 persons ; and the Theatre, 98 feet 6 inches by 
85 feet, seating 1,300 persons. Four small toners flank the 
Memorial Transept, the two eastern containing the approaches 
to the Theatre, and the two western four rooms, 20 feet by 22 ; 
one of which is especially appropriated for the use of the 
Overseers of the College. 

In the cellar, no provision had been made by this Committee 
for kitchens, heating apparatus, or other conveniences, as it 
was not known how far they would be required ; but the 
Corporation of the College, having determined to try the 
experiment of allowing undergraduates to take their meals 
in the dining hall, have amply supplied them ; and this experi- 
ment, whilst it has greatly added to the daily usefulness of 
the building, has thus far in no degree lessened or interfered 
with the cherished and sacred associations which properly 
belong to it. 

For the design, both in its original outlines and pro- 
portions and in its details of construction and ornamenta- 



19 

tion, as well as for a careful supervision of the entire work 
from its commencement, the Committee is indebted to the 
skill and faithful labor of the architects, Messrs. Ware & Van 
Brunt. In the size and general features of the structure, and 
especially in the adaptation of its several parts to each other, 
these gentlemen had serious difficulties to surmount. For to 
combine three buildings, — a Memorial Hall, a Theatre, and a 
Dining Room, — each of them important in itself and distinct 
in use and purpose, in one harmonious composition, and yet to 
make the memorial feature the predominating characteristic 
of the whole, was by no means a usual or an easy task. The 
result of their labors, however, though possibly in this, as in 
all similar undertakings, justly liable to criticism, we feel 
assured, public opinion will concur in pronouncing as highly 
creditable to their architectural ability and good judgment. 

It is not the province of this Committee to distribute the 
honor of this undertaking. Nevertheless, it is only just and 
proper to say here that the University and the public gen- 
erally are indebted to the Committee of Fifty ; and among 
its members in an especial manner, as I am confident they 
will all most cheerfully admit, to the ability, zeal, and untiring 
activity of its first chairman, the late lamented Charles 
G. Loring, for the initiation and wise general control and 
supervision of this enterprise ; to the Central Finance Com- 
mittee, and conspicuously to their treasurer Henry Lee, for 
their important and laborious services in soliciting, collecting, 
and managing the funds required for the erection of the 
building ; and last, though not least, to the large number 
of graduates and friends of the University, who so cheer- 
fully answered the calls made upon them, with generous 
subscriptions. 

The amount of money which at various times has been 
placed within the control of the Building Committee, as ap- 
pears by the account of Henry Lee, Esq., treasurer, is as 
follows, viz. : — 



20 



From graduates $150,784.90 

„ Friends who were not graduates . . . . 65,460.00 

$216,244.90 

„ Interest and profit $73,7oS-03 

,, Guarantee by the Treasurer of funds in his 

hands 17,201.25 

,, Harvard College on account of the play- 
ground 15,000.00 

„ Dedication fund, balance 112.00 

,, Fund in the hands of Professor Childs . 600.00 

106,618.28 

„ Sanders Funds : principal on September 

I, 1874 $5^,943-^5 

„ Sanders Funds : Interest to February 4, 

1878 5,870.57 

64,813.82 

$387,677.00 

And the total cost of land and building, every bill having been 
paid, is as follows, viz. : — 

Of land $13,670.58 

„ Dining Hall and Transept . . .$292,511.70 

„ Theatre 80,857.08 

■ 373,368.78 

387,039-: 

Leaving on February 5, 1878, in the hands of Henry Lee, 
Esq., treasurer of the Committee of Fifty, a balance in 
cash of $637 f -; 



The original estimate of cost for the entire work in 1869, 
as may be seen in the Report of the Building Committee in 
that year, was four hundred thousand dollars ; and it is grati- 
fying to remark that the total outlay has fallen short of that 
amount by the sum of twelve thousand nine hundred and 
sixty dollars and sixty-four cents. 

A single duty only remains for your Committee to perform. 
It is to ask that this Report of their doings may be accepted 
and they themselves discharged from the labors and responsi- 



21 



bilities which have so long rested upon them. And this they 
do in the hope that the building, which has been erected 
under their auspices, will be regarded as a fitting monument 
to the dear memories of those graduates and students of the 
College who gave their lives for their country, and as a gift 
to the University, valuable for various important uses, but 
precious, above all, as a perpetual incentive to noble living. 

All which is respectfully submitted. 



HENRY B. ROGERS, 
HENRY LEE, ^^"'^''^""' 
J. ELLIOT CABOT, 
THEODORE LYMAN, 
CHARLES W. ELIOT, 



Building 
Co7n?nittee. 



Boston, March 30, 1878. 



COMMITTEES. 



Zl}£ Committre of jpiftn 



*Charles G. Lorixg (Chairman) 

Jacob Bigelow 
*David Sears . . 
*James Walker 

John G. Palfrey (Chairman 

Stephen Salisbury 

Sidney Bartlett . 

R. W. Emerson . 
*Francis C. Lowell 

Henry B. Rogers 

William A.^iory . 

Christopher T. Thayer 
*Samuel H. Walley . 
*Stephen ^I. Weld . 

Robert C. Winthrop 
*George T. Bigelow . 

Olr'er Wendell Hol.aies 

Robert W. Hooper . 

Thomas G. Appleton 

JosiAH G. Abbot . . 

W^A.LDO HiGGINSON . 

fTHOMAS Wigglesworth 
*TuRNER Sargent . . 

Amos A. Lawrence . 

Henry Lee (Treasurer) 

Richard H. Dana, Jr. 

Patrick T. Jackson . 

Samuel Eliot . . . 

Edward E. Hale . . 
*James Lawrence . . 

Edward N. Perkins 

Leyerett Saltonstall 

Francis J. Child . . 

Charles E. Guild . 

Charles E. Norton 



A 


B. of 1812 


jj 


1806 






1807 
1814 




5? 


I8I5 




J? 


I8I7 




jj 


I818 




?5 


1821 




55 


I82I 




J5 


1822 




?? 


1823 




>J 


1824 




?5 


1826 




5? 


1826 




M 


1828 




?5 


1829 




?J 


1829 




55 


1830 




55 


I83I 




55 


1832 




5» 


1833 




55 

'5 


1833 
1834 




55 


1835 




55 


1836 




55 


1837 




55 


1838 




55 


1839 




55 


1839 




55 


1840 




55 


I84I 




55 


1844 




55 


1846 




55 


1846 



23 



Charles F. Choate A. B, 

Samuel Batchelder, Jr 

h. h. coolidge 

George Putnam 

Theodore Lyman (Secretary) 

George B. Chase 

John C. Ropes 

John T. Morse, Jr 

*Edw. a. Crowninshield 

Charles F. Folsom 

William Greenough 

Richard H. Derby 

J. InGERSOLL BOWDITCH A.M. 

*G. Rowland Shaw A.M. 

William Everett (Secretary) A.B. 



of 1849 
1851 
1852 
1854 
1855 
1856 
1857 
i860 
1861 
1862 
1863 
1864 

1849 
i860 
1859 



On Aug. 3, 1868, Charles W. Eliot, A.B. 1853, J. Elliot Cabot, 
A.B. 1840, Samuel A. Green, A.B. 1851, jBenjamin H. Silsbee, 
A.B. i83i,tFRANCis E. Parker, A.B., and A. J. C. Sowdon, A.B. 1857, 
were chosen to fill existing vacancies. 

On July 14, 1866, William Everett resigned as Secretary, and A. J. 
C. Sowdon was chosen Secretary in his place ; and Sept. 2, 1870, Mr. 
Sowdon resigned, and Theodore Lyman was chosen in his stead. On 
Nov. 30, 1867, John G. Palfrey was appointed Chairman, in the place 
of Charles G. Loring, deceased. 

[Those who died are designated by an asterisk, and those who resigned 
by a dagger, against their names.] 



Butltimg Committee. 

Henry B. Rogers (Chairman), Turner Sargent, J. Elliot 
Cabot, Charles E. Norton, Theodore Lyman. 

On Nov. 30, 1867, Henry Lee was chosen, in place of Turner Sar- 
gent, resigned ; and on Aug. 3, 1868, Charles W. Eliot was chosen, 
in place of Charles E. Norton, resigned. 



3omt Committee on tf)e ^Site. 
The Building Committee and the Central Finance Committee. 



Committee on t\)z Eeport on a permanent JUcmorial. 

Charles G. Loring (Chairman), James Walker, R. W. Emerson, 
Henry B. Rogers, Robert W. Hooper, Samuel Eliot, Charles 
E. Norton, Martin Brimmer, H. H. Coolidge. 



24 



iFmanrr <Ci:muu'itft. 

Amos A. Lawp.evce (Chairman' A.B. of 1S35 

Stephen H. Tyng ,. 1817 

Larz Anderson . . ■ 1S22 

Stephen M. Weld ,, 1S26 

Henlry W. Bellows . ., 1S32 

Samuel Osgood ., 1S32 

W-ALDO HiGGINSON . 1S33 

TH03IAS Donaldson ., 1S34 

Joseph Sargent „ 1834 

Joseph H. WrLLL\3i5 ,. 1834 

Hentiy Lee, Jr. (Treasurer.' ., 1S36 

J. F. W. Ware 1S3S 

John Kzbler 1S39 

Charles F. Shoohn ,, 1842 

Francis J. Child ., 1846 

Charles J. Guild ., 1S46 

Frederick A. Lane 1S49 

Joseph H. Choate 1S52 

Chapo-es W. Eliot 1S53 

Atherton Blight ., 185^: 

Horace H. Fup.ness ., 1854 

Phillips Brooks ,, 1855 

John C. Ropes 1857 

Alexan"der McKenzie . 1859 

J. I. Bowditch A.M. ., 1S49 

G. HowLAND Shaw 1S60 

George C. Ward 

WlLLLi:.! E-.-E?.Er7 ^Secre:ar;.-j ., 1859 



Cnatral iFi'nanrf Committrr. 

A310S A. Lawrence, Henry Lee, Jr., Stephen M. Weld, Waldo 
HiGGiNSON, F. J. Child. W. W. Greenough. ChaPvLES F. Shlnohn. 
J. I. Bowditch, Chae^es W. Eliot. Willia^-i E-.-ePvEet. 

Aug. 3, 18685 Patrick T. Jackson was chosen, in place of S. M. 
Weld, deceased: and June 5, 1869, Horace H. Coolidge, in place of 
Charles W. Eliot, resimed. 



REPORT OF THE TREASURER 



OF 



THE HARVARD MEMORIAL FUND, 

26 June, 1878. 



A S Treasurer of the Harvard Memorial Fund, I have the 
honor to present this my twelfth and final report, 
including: : — 



'& 



1. An account of the moneys received, improved, and ex- 
pended in the purchase of land, and the erection of the 
Dining and Memorial Hall, the central tower, and staircases 
to Sanders Theatre. 

2. An account of the moneys received through the hands 
of the College Treasurer from the " Sanders Bequest," and the 
moneys raised by subscription to supplement this fund, for the 
erection of the Sanders Theatre. 

3. A consolidated account of the total receipts and outlay. 

4. A list of the contributors to the two funds, — that of the 
Alumni necessarily incomplete, some of the contributions hav- 
ing been reported in the name of the Class, and the names of 
individuals not communicated. 

The alternative allowed subscribers, of paying at once, or in 
five annual instalments with interest added, involved the keep- 
ing nearly one hundred individual accounts with interest, some 
of them over five years, as well as the periodical issue of notifi- 

4 



26 



cations, and a voluminous correspondence. This extension of 
time of payment likewise caused the loss of a considerable frac- 
tion of the subscriptions ; a change of circumstances rendering 
some unable, and a change of heart others unwilling, to fulfil 
their engagements. The loss to the first fund (the Dining 
and Memorial Hall fund) of subscriptions, with interest, was 
nearly 530,000. 

The period from 1866 to 1874. during which the receipts 
were in advance of the payments, was one of gradual, then 
rapid, decline of stocks, — a time of anxiety and disappointment 
to all trustees of property, your treasurer included. I venture, 
therefore, to congratulate you upon the fact that the amount 
earned on the principal, by interest and by frequent change of 
investment (not including the interest received bv me on sub- 
scriptions), is equal to interest at the rate of nine per cent, 
annually compounded ; for which result I am indebted to the 
co-operation of my partners. 



27 

COST OF HARVARD MEMORIAL HALL, AND INCIDENTAL 
EXPENSES, 1866 TO 1878. 



Contract. 



Extras. 



Total. 



Masonry 

Stone 

Carpenters .... 

Plasterers 

Painters 

Copper and Iron Work 
Gas Pipes, &c. . . . 

Water 

Marble Tile Work . 
Grading 



Architects, 5 ^ on $271,992.60 



Charity to a Workman injured 

Insurance 

Engineer, Surveys 



Building 



Land. 
Land, less Sales .... $13,670.58 
Engineer . . . $405.57 
Taxes .... 1,53544 
Fence .... 13-83 

1,954.84 



Building and Land 



Expenses. 

Printing 

Advertising 

Corner Stone Celebration 



$581.70 

691:13 

1,658.71 



Funds. 
Subscriptions from — 

Alumni $143,434.90 

Friends 57,260.00 

$200,694.90 
Donation from Harvard 

College 15,000.00 

Dedication Fund, balance . 112.00 

Int. & profit. . . $73,503.41 
Guarantee from 

Treasurer . . . 17,201.25 

90,704.66 



$113,141.46 

47,720.00 

70,698.00 

2,293.00 

i5'5i4-32 

6.112.40 

192.00 

245 21 
5,258.90 
1, 000 ..00 



$262,175.29 

i3'599-63 



$275,77492 

50.00 

- 1,715.62 

1 50.00 



$277,690.54 



15,625.42 



^293>3i5-96 



2,93^-54 



$296,247.50 



^3483-15 

702.25 

1,09440 

1,781.70 
2,812.68 



60.60 



;i 16,624.61 

48,422.25 

71,792.40 

2,293.00 

17, 296. 02 

8.925.08 

192.00 

245.21 

5>3i9-5o 
1,000.00 



$9,93478 



)272, 110.07 
13.599-63 



$9,934.78 



$285,709.70 

50.00 

1,715.62 

150.00 



),934-78 



$287,625.32 



15,62542 



^9.93478 



$303.25074 



.931-54 



$9.93478 



^06,182.28 



306.511.56 



Balance left 



$329.28 



COST OF SAXDERS THEATRE. ETC.. iS- to iS-S. 



Ex: 



Masonn- . 
Stone . . 
Granite . 
Plastering . 
Carving 

Less returned 



Carpenters 
Painting 
Roofing 
Gutters 
Water Board 
Pipes . . 
Iron Work 
Copper Work 
Tin Work . 
Marble Sills 



Heating 



Architects, 5;^ on $71.5:3.^0 



4,700.00 I 13C.CO 

777.00 ! .... 

1.200.00 .... 



1,014.9; 
31,29000 

3-53S-5^ 
2,40000 

533-00 

145.00 

i5aS 

675.00 

972.00 

560.00 

45.00 

1,787.00 

54621 



1. 396- 13 
700.65 



■3- J/ 



^2,589.22 
3-592-65 



$2,997.84 



$2,997.84 



566,181.87 

Insurance ; 210.80 

Finishing Basement ■ 602.00 

Impro^temext to Tower. $66,994.67 

Models ....... S200.00 : 

Copper Work 2,600.00 ' 

.... 2.S00.00 

FiTTIXGS. 566,994.67 ; 55,797.54 

Awnings . . SS4-00 . . . SS4.00 | 

Chandeliers, 2,758.63 ... 2,758 63 j 

Carpet . . . 489.S7 . . . 489.87 

Cushions. . 1,27610 S49 98 1,326.08 

Chairs . . . 858.00 . . . ^ 58.00 I 

Numbers. . 13540 . . . 135.40 I ^,60200 



49.98 



Heating Apparatus . . . 
Tablet in Memorial Hall 
Architects" Commissior.s on 5j 



Funds. 

Sanders Fund 564. S13 

Professor Child. Sale of 



953-73 



228.86 



$74,780.40 



Harvard Biographies . . . 
Subscriptions from — 

Alumni 57.350.00 

Friends S.200-OO 



600. 00 



:m ;.:;o.oo 



Interest -5169. i: 
Profit . - ^2.;: 



;i.62 



$6,076.68 



$12,948.69 

4,83000 

777.00 

1,200.00 



1,014.95 

32,686.13 

4,239-23 

2,400.00 

53300 

145.00 

1248 

675.00 

972.00 

560.00 

45.00 

2,002.37 

546.21 



3o92-6i 



$69,179.71 
210.00 
602.80 



169,992.51 



.80000 



572,792-51 



5,651.98 



578,444.49 
1,200.00 

9S3-73 
22S.86 



$80,857.08 



i;.-;i.62 



SSi. 165.44 



Ealaxc: 



29 



SUMMARY OF THE TWO FUNDS, May 14, 1878. 





Contract. 


Extras. 


Total. 


Harvard Memorial Hall 

Sanders Theatre 

Fittings, Improvement to Tower, Heat- 
ing A])paratus, Tablet in Memorial 
Hall, &c • • • • 

Expenses. 
Printing, Advertising, and Corner-Stone 
Celebration 


$277,690.54 
66,994 67 


$9,93478 
2,997.84 


$287,625.32 
69,992-51 


$344,685.21 

7,78573 


$12,93262 
3,078.84 


$357,617-83 
10,864.57 


$352,470-94 
2,931-54 


$16,011.46 


$368,482.40 
2,931-54 


$355,402.48 
15,625.42 


$16,011.46 


$371,41394 
15,625.42 


Whence derived. 
Contributions from — 
Alumni . . $150,784.90 
Friends . . 65,460.00 

$216,244.90 

Harvard College .... 15,000.00 

Sanders Fund 64,813.82 

Dedication Day, balance . 112.00 
Professor Child, Sale of 

Harvard Biographies . 600.00 
Int. & profit . $73,705-03 
Guarantee from 

Treasurer . 17,201.25 

$90,90628 


$371,027.90 


$16,011.46 


$387,03936 
$387,677.00 








Balance left in hands of Tri 


USURER 


$637.64 





30 



LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS TO MEMORIAL HALL. 



^ I u m n i» 



1797. 



1802. 

Levi Lincoln $200 

William Minot, for Class . . . 200 
Josiah L. Fairbanks, in memorv 

of John Fairbanks .... 100 

I500 



1803. 

James Savage $2000 

1806. 

George W. Lvman . . ., . . $200 



1807. 

David Sears, for Class .... $5000 

1810. 

Octavius Pickering $100 

1811. 

William P. Mason $1000 

John C. Gray 1200 

Mrs. Charles P. Curtis, in mem- 
ory of Charles P. Curtis . . 100 
Solomon D. Townsend ... 25 
Nathaniel L. Frothingham . . 200 
Mrs. Thomas G. Cary, in mem- 
ory of Thomas G. Cary . . . 300 

$^5 



1812. 

William T. Andrews .... $1250 

Charles G. Loring 1000 

Mrs. M. M. Q. Greene, in mem- 
ory of Benjamin D. Greene . 100 
James H. Duncan 50 

$2400 



1813. 

Mrs. Anna T. Loring, in memory 

of William J. Loring . . . $500 

1815. 

J. Amory Lowell $200 

John G. Palfrey 100 

John P. Bigelow 50 

Mrs. Sparks, in memory of Jared 

Sparks 300 

Richard M. Hodges .... 100 

^6750 

1816. 

William H. Gardiner .... 3500 



I8I7. 




Stephen Salisbury . . . 


. . $6000 


1818. 




Sidnev Bartlett .... 


. $500 


Nathaniel Curtis .... 


. 250 


Sampson Reed .... 


. . 100 


George Osborne .... 


75 


Frederic A. Farley . . . 


25 



31 



George R. Noyes ^20 

William Emerson 15 

Francis Brinley 15 

$1000 

1819. 

Henry Upham $200 

1820. 

Henry Bartlett ^50 

Ezra Stiles Gannett 100 

John C. Hayden 100 

John Rogers 25 

George B. Osborn 50 

Daniel H. Peirce 100 

William H. Furness .... 25 

1821. 

Francis C. Lowell $200 

Class, through Ralph Waldo 

Emerson 5°° 



$700 



1822. 

Larz Anderson I2500 

Cornelia Loring, in memory of 

George A. Goddard .... 

Henry B. Rogers 

$5700 

1823. 

Russell Sturgis $5000 

William Amory 1300 

John C. Lee 100 

George Leonard 20 

George Peabody 200 

#6620 



1824. 

Francis Amory $600 

Edward lilakc loo 

Nathaniel Silsbce 100 



George Wheatland $100 

Christopher T. Thayer . . . 100 

E. Hasket Derby 100 

Henry C. Perkins 50 

Mrs. Horton, in memory of Wil- 
liam Horton 50 

Edward Pickering 50 

Charles G. Putnam 50 

William Newell 5 

George B. Dorr 250 

^1555 



1825. 

William Dwight $1000 

Charles Francis Adams . . . 1200 

Seth Ames 100 

John B. S. Jackson 50 

Samuel B. Fales 50 

George P. Bradford 20 

Thomas Sherwin 50 

Frederic H. Hedge 25 

Francis Cunningham .... 100 

^2595 



1826. 

Willard Parker $500 

Edward Southworth .... 500 

Increase S. Wheeler .... 500 

Benjamin Cox 500 

George Putnam 500 

Stephen M. Weld 100 

Alexander J. Hamilton ... 50 

George F. Haskins 20 

William L. Russell 25 

Nehemiah Adams 5 

Cazneau. Palfrey 5 

Julian Abbot 10 

Edward Jarvis 25 

Charles R. Lowell 100 

Oliver Stearns 10 

George W. Hosmer 10 

John C. Phillips 10 

Addison Brown 5 

Samuel H. W alley 100 

Henry Dyer 100 



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1827. 

John W. P. Abbot $200 

Epes S. Dixwell 50 

Edmund Quincy 50 

William H. Brooks 25 

Alfred Lee 5 

I330 

1828. 

Robert C. Winthrop .... $500 

Edward S. Rand 250 

Oliver Prescott 25 

Jacob Caldwell 3 



1829. 

George T. Bigelow . . 
Charles S. Storrow . . 
M. P. Stickney . . . 
James Freeman Clarke 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 
F. B. Crowninshield 
James S. Amory . . . 
James Thurston . . . 
George W. Richardson 
Francis A. Foxcroft 
George T. Davis . . . 
E. Linzee Cunningham 



1830. 

Henry W. Sargent . 
Robert W. Hooper . 
Robert H. Gardiner 
Jonathan W. Bemis 
G. Washington Warren 
Joseph Lyman 
Thomas C. Amory . 
J. Mason Warren 
Charles Sumner . . 
James Dana . . . 
Nathan W. Munroe 
John Pickering . 
Charlemagne Tower 



$778 



$700 

100 

5 

50 
100 
100 
300 

10 
100 

10 
100 

10 



585 



;iooo 

700 

50 

50 

100 

50 

50 

50 

100 

50 
10 

50 
100 

;2^6o 



I83I. 




Thomas G. Apple ton . . 


. . Iiooo 


George C. Shattuck . . 


. . 1000 


George A. Bethune . . . 


. . 100 


J. Lothrop Motley . . . 


. . 100 


Hermann B. Liches . . . 


. . 100 


Nathaniel B. Shurtleff . . 


. . 50 


John H. Morison . . . 


. . 25 




$2375 



1832. 

Josiah G. Abbott 
J. Sullivan Warren . 
Hetaireia of Class 1832 
John Holmes . . . 
Lewis Colby . . . 
William C. Appleton 
James A, Treat . . 
William W. Wellingtc 
Samuel Osgood . . 
John Parkman . . 
Augustus Story . . 
Horatio Bigelow , . 
Henry Wheatland . 
Alanson Tucker 
Estes Howe . . . 
Stephen Salisbury . 
John M. Bethune 
Oliver C. Everett 
Richard Soule . . 
Francis J. Humphrey 
LeBaron Russell . . 
John T. Morse . . 
William Silsbee . . 
Horace Dupee . . 
John S. Dwight . . 
William Warland . 
Richard M. Chapman 



$1000.00 

100.00 

610.23 

50.00 

50.00 

25.00 

25.00 

10.00 

100.00 

50.00 

50.00 

50.00 

25.00 

100.00 

100.00 

25.00 

50.00 

25 00 

25.00 

50.00 

50 00 

25.00 

25.00 

15.00 

10 00 

15.00 

100.00 

I2760.23 



1833. 




George W. Amory . . 


. . $1000 


William Whiting . . 


• ■ 500 


Waldo Higginson 


• • 50 


Nathaniel S. Tucker . . 


• . 25 


David S. Greenough . 


. . 100 


George E. Ellis . . . 


. . 100 



33 



William Mack I50 

William D. Peck 25 

Charles W. Hartshorn ... 50 

John C. Lyman 50 

John H. Dix ....... 100 

John O. Stone 150 

William M. Prichard .... 100 

Samuel P. Andrews 10 

C. Minot Weld 25 

William P. Jarvis 50 

Thomas Wigglesworth . . . 200 











$2585 


1834. 


Turner Sargent $1300 


Charles E. Ware . . 








100 


Benjamin E. Getting 








100 


Samuel M. Felton . 








100 


Samuel W. Rodman 








100 


Thomas Donaldson . 








50 


C. Breck Parkman . 








50 


Thomas Cushing . 








100 


Isaac Hinckley . . 








50 


Henry Gassett . . . 








50 


John W. Randall . 








50 


Joseph H. Williams 








100 


Hiram Wellington . 








50 


Joseph Sargent . . 








50 


$2250 


1835. 


Amos A. Lawrence $5000 


Anna Cabot Lodge, in memory 


of George Cabot 1000 


William R, Robeson 








1000 


George Bemis . . . 








500 


E. Rockwood Hoar . 








100 


John H. Eliot . . . 








. 250 


Charles H. Parker . 








TOO 


Charles V. Bemis . 








50 


James L. Goodridge 








50 


Joseph S. Beal . . 








25 


James Ritchie . . . 








25 


Thomas M. Brewer . 








ID 


Charles W. Palfrey . 








ID 


Naaman L. White . 








25 


Theodore H. Dorr . 








15 


Frederic A. Eustis . 








50 



Charles W. Storey $50 

Henry Lyon 100 

H. G. O. Blake 15 

John A. King 100 

I8475 



1836. 

Henry Lee, Jr $1000 

Samuel G. Ward ...... 500 

William Minot, Jr 100 

Samuel Cabot 50 

Israel M. Spelman 50 

John Ruggles 25 

1837. 

John Bacon $200 

Nathaniel Holmes 100 

C. C. Holmes 100 

Samuel Treat 100 

William W. Greenough . . . 100 

Henry Vose 50 

William J. Dale 50 

Amos Perry 50 

Henry Williams 50 

John Weiss 30 

Henry J. Bigelow 60 

Henry Hubbard 25 

Benjamin G. Kimball .... 25 

Giles H. Whitney 10 

William Allen 10 

Daniel Wight 5 

Francis Phelps 10 

Charles Theodore Russell . . 25 

$1000 



1838. 

G. Howland Shaw 
Patrick T. Jackson 
Ebenezer Wright 
Benjamin S. Rotcli 
James R. Lowell . 
Edward A. Renouf 
Benjamin W. Whitney 



^2000 

500 

1000 

1000 

100 

25 

$4675 



34 



1839. 

C. William Loring $icco 

John Kebler 50 

John Ganson ico 

George Ha^-ward 50 

Alexander C. Washburn ... 50 

Edward E. Hale fo 

Charles M. EUis 30 

William E. Townsend .... 33 

Samuel Jennison 25 

Henry D. Austin 25 

Thomas Dawes 5 

Francis P. Hurd ico 

James G. King 100 

Charles H. Brigham .... 25 

#1660 



1840. 










Joseph H. Allen S2; 


Charles E. Buckingham 






2^ 


Henrv Bryant .... 






200 


T. Elliot Cabot . . 








ICO 


John Capen . . . 








-5 


William A. Crafts . 








20 


Joseph M. Churchill 








5 


John C. B. Davis . 








100 


Arthur L. Devens . 








IQO 


Henry C. Kimball . 








ID 


John B. Henck . . 








-5 


Archibald G. King . 








100 


James Lawrence . . 








430 


Charles W. Parsons 








-5 


Heryey I. Parker 








5 


William G. Russell . 








100 


George P. Sanger . 








-5 


Frederic F. Thayer . . 








-5 


Edward H. Welch . 








20 


William 0. White . 








100 


Moses W. Weld . . 








50 




51515 



I84I. 

Edward X. Perkins 3;co 

Francis E. Parker 100 

Francis Minot 2 ; 

T. Wentworth Higginson . . 20 

William B. Bacon ico 

Edward H. Clarke ;o 



James R. Partridge ^30 

John Reyere ico 

John Haven 25 

$gjo 

1842. 
Francis M. W'eld, in memory of 

William Logan Rodman . . $1000 
Charles F. Shimmin . . . . 2co 

T. Prentice Allen 23 

Thornton K. Ware 2 ; 



$1: 



1843. 
Mrs. Caleb A. Curtis, in memory 

of Charles Frederic Adams 
Henry D. Sedgwick 
Horace B. Sargent , 
James H. Means . , 
Luther Parks, Jr. , 
William A. Richardson 
John G. Sewall . . 
Frederic R. Sears 
Alexander W. Thayer 
Charles C. Perkins . 



1844. 
George F. Parkman . 
George C. Ward . . 
Tappan E. Francis . 
Aaron C. Baldwin - 
Edward Wheelwright 
Francis Parkman 
PhiUp H. Sears . . 
William G. Prescott 
George S. Hale . . 
Charles J. Capen 
Robert Codman . . 
George M. Brooks . 
Samuel S. Greelev . 
Charles W. Dabney, Jr 
Edward S. Hoar . . . 
James P. Treadweli . . 
Stephen G. Wheatland 



>200 

100 

ICO 

-5 



1^3 
33 

ICO 

SS30 



130 
;3 



-3 
10 
20 

50 

IC2 

23 



p22go 



35 



i845. 

Manning F. Force ^50 

Quincy A. Shaw 200 

George P. Upham 200 

Charles P. Curtis 100 

$550 



1846. 

Sophia Ritchie, in memory 

Montgomery Ritchie 
Henry A. Whitney . 
Calvin Ellis . . . 
Joshua A. Swan . . 
Nathan Webb . . 
Edmund T. Eastman 
Firancis J. Child . . 
George F. Hoar . . 
W. Ellery Sedgwick 
Charles D. Homans 
Charles E. Norton . 
Walter Mitchell . . 
Isaac I. Cummings . 
George B. Neal . . 
Augustus L. Soule . 
Francis A. Faulkner 
J. Mason Parker . . 
William D. Bliss . . 
Edward S. Philbrick 
T. Bigelow Lawrence 
William L. Ropes . • 



of 



$500 

650 

100 

50 

25 

5 

100 

100 

100 

50 

50 

50 

50 

50 

40 

35 
25 
50 

ID* 
1000 

5 

$3045 



1848. 

Henry Saltonstall ^150 

Class, through Henry S. Chase, 1000 

$1150 



1849. 

Martin Brimmer .... 
Frederic A. Lane . . . 
Mrs. Caleb A. Curtis, in mem 
ory of Horace W. Adams 
Abbott Lawrence . . . 
George B. Upton, Jr. . , 
Charles Follen .... 



^5500.00 
1000.00 

200.00 

1700.00 

50.00 

50.00 



Lemuel Shaw . . . 
Charles F. Choate . 
Artemas W. Lamson 



1850. 

Augustus Lowell 
Joseph H. Thayer . 
T. Jefferson Coolidge 



$100.00 

100.00 

41.40 

58741.40 



$1000 

20 

400 



1851 

Samuel Batchelder . 
Samuel Abbott Green 
Charles F. Dunbar . 
William F. Allen . 
Lucius H. Buckingham 
Edward H. Hall . . 
Francis W. Palfrey . 
Frederic Winsor . . 
James M. Codman . 
George O. Shattuck 
R. Morris Copeland 
Anson P. Hooker 
David P. Wilder . . 
William W. Goodwin 
Henry W. Haynes . 
Joseph H. Sprague . 
George Bliss, Jr. . . 
Augustus T. Perkins 
Henry Sigourney . . 
Arthur Dexter . . 



1852. 

Henry G. Denny . 
Addison Brown . 
George H- Fisher 
James B. Thayer 
Knyvet W. Sears 
Horatio Alger . . 
Caleb D. Bradlee 
David W. Chccver 
John E. Hoar . . 
Charles T. Canfield 
Joseph H. Choate 



$1420 



$25.00 
25.00 
50.00 
15.00 
ro.oo 
10.00 
10.00 
10.00 

50-25 
50.00 
50.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
100 00 
50.00 
50.00 
25.00 

I655.25 



^50 
100 

25 

75 

225 

25 
50 
25 
20 

5 

100 



36 



Russell M. Williams . . 


• ST7.50 


1855. 










John T. Perry 


25.00 


Theodore Lyman S50CO 


Interest 


952 ; 


H. Sidney Everett . 
Samuel Johnston 
Charles A. Gregory . 








1000 




S752.02 


100 












50 






Charles A. Cutter . 








ID 


1853- 


j 


Tames Reed . . . 








5 


John Q. Adams .... 


. . Sioo ' 


Francis C. Barlow . 








25 


Edward H. Ammidown 


. . 100 


Joseph M. Cushing . . 








100 


Benjamin C. Clark . . . 


. . 100 


Alex. E. Agassiz . . 








250 


Francis G. Richards . . 


. . 100 


James A. Emmerton 








50 


Charles F. Blake .... 


. . 50 


Louis Arnold . 








25 


Moses H. Day .... 


■ • 50 


Samuel P. Blake . . 








25 


John Erving 


. • 50 


Edward I. Browne . 










Edward King 


• ■ 50 


Joseph C. Hevwood 








15 


Arthur T. Lyman . . . 


• • 50 


Charles A. Chase 








25 


Robert S. Rantoul . . . 


• • .50 


Smith Wright . . . 








100 


Samuel S. Shaw .... 


• • 50 


John B. Tileston . . 








10 


David H.Ward . . . . 


. . 50 


Joseph Willard . . 








10 


John D. Washburn . . . 


• • 50 


William Amorv, Jr. 








25 


Uriel H. Crocker 


• • 25 


George G. Crocker . 








100 


Aaron D. Weld, Jr. • ■ • 


• • 25 


Isaac P. Wainwright 








5 


John C. Palfrey . . . . 


. . 20 


Edward P. Thwing . 








5 


Davies Wilson .... 


. . 20 


W^illiam W. Richards 










John D Bryant .... 


. . ID 


Leonard A. Tones . 








15 


George W^ Hartwell . . 


. . 10 


Henrv L. Hiscginson 








10 


Hamilton A. Plill . . . 


. . 10 


Robert T. Paine . . 








ICO 


James C. White . . . . 


. . 12 


Edward T- Brown . 








• 250 


\villiam P. Harding . . 


. . 10 


•Tohn Balch .... 








25 


George S. Paine . . . . 


. . 8 


Randolph M. Clark . 








50 


Winslow W. Sever . . . 


• • 25 


Toseph Haves . . . 








200 


Charles W'. Eliot . . . 


. . 100 


Phillips Brooks . . 
George Dexter . . 








50 




S112; 


ICO 




~" 














. . S2000 






1854. 


57S62 


Frederic L. Ames . . . 




Atherton Blight . . . . 


■ • 500 


1856. 


Daniel Denny, Jr. . . . 


. . 200 


John J. Jacobsen 








. Sioo 



Leonard J. Wyeth 100 

George Putnam, Jr 50 

William J. Potter 50 

William A. Preston 50 

John C. Bancroft 50 

Henry Van Brunt 50 

David H. Coolidge 50 

Augustine W. Thompson ... 25 

Charles Thorndike 100 



George Blagden 10 

William P. Mason 200 



1857- 

James J. Storrow $;o 

Horace X. Fisher 100 

Stanton Blake 50 

Samuel Dorr 50 

John L. Flagg 50 



Zl 



Franklin Haven, Jr. 








^50 


James J. Higginson . 








50 


John C. Ropes . . 








50 


A. J. C. Sowdon . . 








50 


Augustus A. Hayes, Jr 








30 


Francis Bartlett . . 








25 


John L. Dearborn . 








25 


George H. Foster . 








25 


Charles P. Horton . 








25 


Francis C. Ropes 








25 


Robert M. Morse, Jr. 








25 


Solomon Lincoln, Jr. 








20 


Joseph A. Hale . . 








15 


Horatio Wood . . 








15 


Francis H. lirown . 








10 


Joseph H. Clark . . 








10 


Charles P. Gorely . 








10 


John D. Long . . . 








ID 


Patrick A. O'Connell 








10 


Robert D. Smith . . 








10 


Livingston Stone 








10 


Charles F. Walcott . 








10 


Samuel Wells . . 








10 


Henry J. Stevens 








10 


Joseph May . . . 








3 


Francis O. French . . 








50 


Shepherd Brooks 








200 



^1083 



1858. 

Henry W. Foote ^25 

Howard F. Damon 25 

Hollis Hunnewell 100 

Ozias Goodwin 300 

George E. Francis 10 

Henry B. Adams 50 

Gideon Allen 10 

William P. G. Bartlett, by his 

mother 20 

Alanson Bigelow 10 

Josiah Bradlee 50 

Benjamin G. Brown 10 

Benjamin W. Crowninshield . 50 

James C. Davis 25 

George Dexter 25 

William H. Dunning .... 20 

Robert T. Edes 10 

William E. Fette 10 

William H. Fox 5 



Henry W. Frost . 
Horace J. Gilbert 
William G. Gordon 
Samuel S. Green 
William A. Kilbourn 
William F. Milton 
John B. Noyes 
JohnC. Phillips . 
Joseph A. Shaw . 
John T. Stoddard 
James D. Thurber 
John P. Treadwell 
Henry P. Walcott 
Sidney A. Williams 
John Homans, Jr. 
Robert "N. Toppan 
Seth M. Murdock 
Thatcher Magoun, J 
Charles Fairchild 
Winslow Warren, Ji 



1859. 

William Everett 

George W. Bond, in memory of 

Henry M. Bond 

William S. Bond 

Franklin Burgess 
Loring W. Bailey 
Francis V. Balch 
George L. Chaney 
Edward W. Hooper 
Charles Chauncey 
James Gilchrist . 
Clayton F. Becker 
John W. Adams . 
John Winslow 
Edward Curtis 
George Draper 
Amor L. Hollingsworth 
William R. Huntington 
William E. Lamb 
Francis W. Loring 
Ellis L. Motte 
John H. Rickctson 
James A. Rumrill 
James Schouler . 
William B. Storer 
Henshaw B. Wallcy 



$10 

25 
20 
10 
10 
20 

5 
25 

5 
10 

5 

10 
20 

5 
20 

25 
25 
25 
10 

5 

11045 



$1100 



250 

250 

100 

10 

25 

10 

100 

20 

25 
10 

5 
20 

5 

100 

100 

20 

25 

25 

5 

100 

100 

20 

25 

>5 



38 



George F. French ^5 

Alexander McKenzie .... 10 
Fuller family, in memory of 

Henry W. Fuller 100 

Frederic M. Holland .... 5 

Frederic S. Grand d'Hauteville, 100 

George B. Merrill 25 

William Barrett 25 

George A. Torrey 25 

James A. Savvtell 25 

George Baty Blake, Jr. . . . 100 

^5 



i860. 



William S. Appleton . 






$2500 


Descendants of Samuel Eliot, in 


memory of Charles J. Mills . 5000 


William E. Perkins .... 


. 250 


Nancy F. Barstow, in memor) 


r 


of Nathaniel S. Barstow . 


200 


George W. Weld . . . 




. 700 


Charles H. Fiske . . 






100 


Henry S. Russell . . 






100 


Julius Dexter .... 






100 


Francis W. Hunnewell 






100 


John W. Hunnewell . 






100 


Frank Haseltine . . . 






50 


William C. Gannett . 






50 


Horace Howland . . 






50 


Edmund Wetmore . . 






50 


Stephen M. Weld, Jr. . 






50 


Benjamin F. D. Adams 






25 


Charles A. Nelson . . 






25 


Horace J. Hayden . . 






25 


Charles H. Doe . . . 






25 


Edward Carter . . . 






25 


Edward C. Johnson 






25 


George E. Adams . . 






25 


Thomas Sherwin, Jr. . 






20 


Francis M. Weld . . 






20 


Charles A. Humphreys 






20 


Francis Hazelton . . 






20 


Selwin Z. Bowman . . 






15 


Edward F. Everett . . 






5 


Wesley O. Holway . . 






10 


George H. Whittemore 






5 


George G. Wheelock . . 






100 




$9790 



I86I. 

Allen F. Boone . 
H-enry P. Bowditch 
Elihu Chauncey . 
John D. Cobb . 
Minot G. Gage . 
Wendell P. Garrison 
Francis W. Hackett 
Alpheus H. Hardy . 
Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. 
John P. Hopkinson . 
Charles D. Lamb 
James R. May . . 
William H. Pettee . 
Henry Pickering , 
Benjamin Rand . . 
Francis T. Richardson 
Charles C. Salter 
Edward W. Sanborn 
James K. Stone . . 
Richard Stone . . 
John Ritchie . . . 
Charles Storrow . . 
Sidney W. Thaxter . 
Edward Wigglesworth 
George F. Works . 
James E. Wright 
John L. Bullard . . 
Franklin Weld . . 
Thomas H. Knowles 
Arthur W. Blake . 
Joseph H. Wales 
Samuel F. Emmons 
Edward A. Crowninshield 
E. Palmer Gould. . 
Francis W. Lawrence 
John Bigelow . . . 
William PI. Forbes . 
William F. Snow 
Joseph B. Hardon . 
Hiram S. Shurtleff . 
Joseph H. McDaniels 
Joseph E. Fiske . . 
Albert Hale . . . 
Charles L. Bixby 
Norwood P. Hallowell 
Stevens G. Cowdrey 
Joseph H. Senter 



>5o 



39 



i862. 

Gilbert R. Payson $1200 

Francis Skinner 5000 

Elizabeth C. Tilton, in memory 

of Samuel C. Haven ... 5 
Mrs. Stone, in memory of her 

son, Goodwin A. Stone . . 100 

Class, through William Hedge, 1000 











^7305 


1863. 


Nathan Appleton $2500 


Robert Amory . . 








25 


Edward H. Kidder . 








50 


Amos L. Mason . . 








50 


Albert K. Post . . 








50 


Charles W. Amory . 








50 


John D. W. French 








50 


David Pingree . . 








50 


Arthur Lawrence 








50 


Edward S. Grew . . 








30 


Samuel C. Davis , . 








30 


Henry B. Going . . 








25 


William G. Field . 








10 


John T. Hassam . . 








5 


Clarence H. Denny . 








50 


Francis L. Higginson 








50 


William Stackpole . 








50 


Edward D. Boit . . 








100 


Charles P. Bowditch 








100 


William Greenough, Jr 








50 


George B. Shattuck . 








SO 


John Winthrop . . 








25 


Arthur Lincoln . . 








25 

^3475 



1864. 

Robert S. Perkins ^250 

William P. Walley 5 

Class, through William L. Rich- 
ardson 1000 

1865. 

George H. Smith $j 

George W. Swett 25 

William L. Tucker 25 

Charles H. Tweed 10 

Frederic Ware 5 



William H. Warren .... $5 

Gorham D. Williams .... 50 

John H. Bradford 2000 

William B. C. Stickney ... 5 

George A. Goddard .... 250 

Francis E. Anderson .... 10 

Robert H. Bancroft 50 

George Blight 50 

William E. Boardman .... 5 

T. Frank Brownell 10 

James R. Chadvvick .... 25 

John W. Churchill 5 

Charles W. Clifford .... 60 

Joseph Cook 5 

Horatio G. Curtis 50 

George W. Dillaway .... 15 

Walter H. Dorr 10 

Charles J. Ellis 10 

Isaac V. French 10 

William A. French 50 

Alfred Greenough 140 

John Greenough 25 

Frank M. Hollister 2 

Patrick T. Jackson 15 

George J. Johnson 10 

George H. Mifflin 50 

George F. Osgood 10 

Henry W. Poor 25 

Charles P. Putnam 10 

James S. Rogers 5 

William Rotch 50 

$3073 

1866. 

George D. W^elles $1000 

1867. 

Samuel Hoar $100 

1869. 

Anonymous * . $5 

1870. 

Charles E. Hoar #100 

Roger Wolcott 200 

#300 



New York subscribers, through 

Frederic A. Lane $1000 



40 



jFiicntrs, not .^lumui 



E. Redington Mudge .... S5500 

George C. Richardson .... 5500 

William F. ^Yeld 5000 

Richard Baker, Jr 5000 

Oliver Ames 5000 

Charles W. Freeland .... 5000 

Gardner Brewer 5000 

Wigglesworth family .... 2500 

James Read 1000 

John A. Blanchard 1000 

J. Ingersoll Bowditch .... 1200 

Alfred Reed 1000 

Peter C. Brooks 1000 

Samuel May & Sons (Samuel 

May, John J. May, Fred. W. 

G. May) 1000 

Johnson C. Burrage .... 1000 

Alvah A. Burrage 1000 

Robert M. Mason 1000 

Samuel Batchelder 1000 

Samuel Frothingham .... 1000 

J. Wiley Edmands 1000 

Mrs. Caroline Merriam . . . 1000 

James H. Beal 500 

John Gardner 500 

William Perkins 500 

J. Huntington WolcoLt . . . 600 

George W. V\'ales 600 

Greelv S. Curtis 200 



Alexander H. Bullock . . . 


. Sioo 


Charles F. Bradford . . . 


50 


Augustus Woodbury . 


10 


Mrs. Robert G. Shaw . . . 


300 


Mrs. Ozias Goodwin . . . 


200 


iMiss Eliza Goodwdn . . . 


200 


Miss Marv C. Goodwin . . 


200 


Miss Lucv Goodwin . . . 


200 


William Appleton .... 


200 


Nathaniel Thaver .... 


1200 


Augustus Whitlock .... 


100 


Edward Matthews .... 


100 


Mrs. Nathaniel I. Bowditch . 


2500 


Henry P. Kidder .... 


1000 


Miss Charlotte Harris . . . 


1000 


Otis Norcross 


500 


James L. Little 


500 


Hollis H. Hunnewell . . . 


500 


Mrs. Mary Brewer .... 


500 


Mrs. Henr^- G. Rice . . . . 


300 


Mrs. Anna C. Lodge . . . 


250 


Richard C. Greenleaf . . . 


250 


William Endicott, Jr. . . . 


250 


Augustus Flagg 


200 


Navlor & Co 


100 


William B. Spooner . . 


100 


Alexander Cochrane . . . . 


50 




S65460 



41 

The Chairman of the Building Committee, in his report, 
has rehearsed the history of this great undertaking, committed 
to your hands thirteen years ago by the Association of the 
Alumni of Harvard College ; from its feeble beginning, through 
its gradual development, to its triumphant achievement. 

The hope that this Memorial would be a tribute from the 
Alumni has not been realized. 

The gifts of the Alumni have been large, some giving 
largely of their abundance, and others more largely of their 
penury ; but the number of givers has been small. 

Out of four thousand and forty Alumni living during the 
progress of the work, but eight hundred and nine (only one- 
fifth) have responded to our annual appeals. Eighteen classes 
with members living have made no returns. 

Of the thirty-three hundred and twenty-one apparently irre- 
sponsive Alumni, many have given what they could, what the 
dead would have valued most, — their sympathy ; a larger num- 
ber have voluntarily omitted to contribute to the erection of a 
building intended to commemorate the self-sacrifice of their 
brethren. 

So an appeal had to be made to friends outside the College, 
who, meeting us cordially, supplemented the subscriptions of 
the Alumni and completed the building. 

It was to have been completed by 1880 

It was completed and occupied Commencement Day 1876 

We were warned that we could not raise $75,000 

We have collected subscriptions to the amount of $216,000 

We were warned that the building could not be erected for less 

than $600,000 

The architects' estimate was $400,000 

It has been most thoroughly built for $360,000 

Ten per cent less than the architects calculated, and forty per cent less 
than the prophets foreboded. 

The selection of the site, the only College ground which the 
Committee could conscientiously accept, and, at the same time, 

6 



42 

for many reasons the most appropriate ; the negotiation for 
the play-ground, by which both parties were benefited ; the 
successful obtaining and the careful expending of the funds ; 
the planning, designing, and erecting a building of such vast 
proportions and such appropriate character, — all testify to 
the devotion and ability of all the members of your sub-com- 
mittees, dead and living, as well as of the architects selected 
by you. 

My accounts have been audited and pronounced correct 
by a committee appointed by you ; the balance of ^637.64 
I am directed to apply — 

1. To the printing and distributing a pamphlet containing 
my final report and that of the Building Committee. 

2. To the printing a revised list of the soldiers and sailors 
to whom the Memorial Hall is dedicated. 

The books containing my accounts, and the lists of sub- 
scribers to the funds, together with my files of vouchers and 
other papers, are subject to your order ; and, having thus fin- 
ished the task confided to me, I beg to be discharged. 

HENRY LEE, 

Treasurer of the Harvard Me?norial Fund. 

To Hon. John G. Palfrey, 

Chair man of the Committee of Fifty . 



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